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Business Continuity Plan

FDP Wealth Management has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur. With that in mind, we are providing you with this information on our business continuity plan.

Contacting Us: If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do at (888) 525-4690, you should go to our web site at http://www.fdpwm.com. If you cannot access us through either of those means, you should first contact our broker-dealer, ValMark Securities, Inc. at (800) 765-5201 or their Web site at http://www.valmarksecurities.com for instructions on how they may receive and enter orders, process other trade-related, cash, and security transfer transactions, and provide prompt access to client funds and securities. ValMark Advisers, Inc. (TOPS accounts) may also be reached at the same phone and web contact information. As a secondary option you should contact either our clearing firm, Pershing, LLC at 201-413-3635 or their Web site at http://www.pershing.com, or for those accounts held with a Third Party Asset Manager, i.e. Brinker Capital, please contact Brinker directly at (800) 333-4573 or their Web site athttp://www.brinkercapital.com.

Our Business Continuity Plan: We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption and respond by safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. In short, our business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data back-up and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.

Our broker-dealer, ValMark Securities, Inc., our clearing firm, Pershing, LLC, and our third party asset managers, i.e. Brinker Capital, back up our important records in a geographically separate area. While every emergency situation poses unique problems based on external factors, such as time of day and the severity of the disruption, we have been advised by our broker-dealer, clearing firm, and third party asset manager that their objective is to restore their own operations and be able to complete existing transactions and accept new transactions and payments within 4 hours. Your orders and requests for funds and securities could be delayed during this period.

Varying Disruptions: Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as: only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to a local site when needed and expect to recover and resume business within the same business day. In a disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, we will transfer our operations to a site outside of the affected area, and recover and resume business within ten business days. In either situation, we plan to continue in business, transfer operations to our broker-dealer if necessary, and notify you through our website http://www.fdpwm.com how to contact us. If the significant business disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure our customer’s prompt access to their funds and securities.

For more information – If you have questions about our business continuity planning, you can contact us at 1 (888) 525-4690 or visit our Web site at http://www.fdpwm.com.